Posts in category Westprint Travels

Lake Eyre – Don’t Drive on the Lake Bed. Lake Eyre National Park is now formally known as Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre National Park. Since 2012 the management of the park has been a partnership between the Arabana Aboriginal Corporation and the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources. We recently travelled the Oodnadatta Track, a […]

Today we are finally going to head off on a track neither of us have travelled before – the Rig Road. We had planned to travel this section with another vehicle but they had to cancel at the last minute due to a family emergency. While this is not ideal we are confident that we […]

In Marree there are a few places that are a ‘must visit’. First is a visit to see Lyle Oldfield for fuel at the Oasis Café. I’m not even sure that the current building is called the Oasis but you won’t miss it. Marree is not that big. There is always a collection of something […]

Hawker is one of my favourite outback towns and somewhere I could easily imagine living. Because we cross the Victoria/SA border for most trips we leave the fruit and veg shopping until Port Augusta. Now fully stocked we headed northward. As a family we have been wandering around this area for many years. I would always […]

After leaving the beach we made camp and the following morning started the last stretch of our journey. Walking along the cliffs is much easier than the beach walking despite the inclement weather. There is lots of lightning around and I’m wondering if it is sensible to be up so high and in the open. […]

Click here for part 1 and part 2 The forest changes so much it is just amazing. We find the most superbly coloured moths. They look like happy wanderer butterflies – until they fold their wings and pretend to be dead leaves. This forest has burned in the last 10 years or so and the […]

The Walking Begins Click here for part 1. We start walking. We assemble at the official start, the Visitor Information Centre in Portland and head off at 9.25am…after a last nervous pit stop. By 10.25 we’ve taken a few happy snaps and are walking well. At 10.26 we are frantically scrounging through our backpacks for […]

Part 1: The Night Before Sleep. I don’t do sleep very well. Or to be more accurate I don’t do sleep very long. Especially not when we are about to embark on a walk that is between 240-260kms long. A pity really because this is the last night I will have a nice soft bed […]